Top Tips
These five tips summarise the main pointers for statistical producers to develop a good understanding of the quality issues of administrative data:
Don’t trust the safeguards
- Check if safeguards are functioning effectively
Get involved
- Work and share with suppliers, such as through secondments and webinars, to develop a common understanding
Raise a red flag
- Identify potential data quality concerns using input and output quality indicators and investigate anomalies
See the big picture
- Identify what investigations and audits have been conducted and what they found
Corroborate the evidence
- Confirm the levels and the trends shown by the stats derived from the admin data